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Long Beach will use federal money to buy about 400 Chromebooks for community centers with publicly available Wi-Fi.

The Long Beach Collaboratory in the Southern California city is open to community members who want to become more involved in the “smart economy” and help the city design and deploy urban tech pilot projects.

The California city will test whether artificial intelligence-driven connected vehicle technology can alleviate traffic congestion and improve air quality.

This week on the Word on Long Beach, we venture out into the city for our first over podcast “Office Hours.”  We set up shop on The Bird Dive Bar on Fourth Street and, we’ll give you an update on the transition from “Fern’s” to the current ownership. - ADVERTISEMENT - 1:06 – Ryan Kurtzman is the project manager for the Long Beach Smart City Initiative.  He joins us to tell us more about the first Long Beach Augmented Reality (AR) Exhibition, which will take place in Downtown Lon...